Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Life | Cyborg Nation

Most consider them pesky critters, but Dr. Alper Bozkurt of North Carolina State University thinks that cockroaches have the potential to save human lives. By hacking their antennae and transforming them into remote-controlled creatures, he believes we can use the cyber roaches as a mobile search and rescue team to help find survivors during natural disasters.


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Cyborg Cockroaches Could Save Your Life | Cyborg Nation

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[vich]

"I love cockroaches. Some humans may think that they're ugly, but cockroaches may also think that human are ugly."

[erkdoc]

Some people obsess over and surround themselves in cats. This guy does it with roaches...

A group of roaches is called an intrusion for a reason.

[selenenoir]

That's horrifying! You're lost in the rubble of a building collapse & just when you think it couldn't get any worse, a swarm of giant zombie roaches sweeps in! I know they're there to help but I'm so afraid of bugggssss!

[siyacer]

Imagine being stuck under rubble and your only hope of being found is a cyborg cockroach and then someone squashes it

[wolf]

DARPA: when "a fly on a wall" may be more than just a *metaphor* for listening in...

[Leetrini]

But roaches may also think that humans are ugly

[kokomanation]

I think I would prefer to die than being saved by a cockroach

[narutofreaxxxx]

That's fucked up. He controls its fucking mind with a microchip which you can buy in a store? Shit...

[sgt.kanxkix]

As a person that loves things like controlling beings this is lovely

[goodboi]

Imagine telling your friends that a cokroach save your life

[XDinky]

This looks like something out of Rick & Morty.

[afanofcanta]

You make that 'Big Brother' prospect seem so exciting despite the implications

[erricomalatesta]

Line in the fucking sand. No AI bugs. You don't come back from that shit.

[badpiggies]

4:16 "Some day soon Big Brother could be bugging your room with an actual bug" well how do you like ROACH TRAPS, Big Brother?

[hirushield]

And kids, that's how i become Roachman

[juliengrison]

C'est un très bon projet surtout pour le but pour lequel ils l'ont construit comme montrer dans la vidéo

[TheSanderAble]

Aren't roaches also rad resistant ? They could be used for nuclear disasters too.

[varreausdutko]

Brilliant, we now literally have mind control.

[DarkaiXeno]

I don't like where this is going.

[normanosborne]

You already know I'm stomping on it